Rinck Mike, Weber Ulrike
General Psychology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Mem Cognit. 2003 Dec;31(8):1284-92. doi: 10.3758/bf03195811.
We tested the event-indexing model proposed by Zwaan, Langston, and Graesser (1995). Participants read narratives containing target sentences that involved situational shifts. Independently of each other, continuity and shifting of the protagonist, time, and location dimensions were varied. In Experiment 1, reading times of the target sentences increased for protagonist shifts and temporal shifts, whereas the effect of spatial shifts was weak. Moreover, an interaction of protagonist shifts and spatial shifts was found. These results were replicated in Experiment 2, which also revealed strong effects of these situational shifts on coherence ratings that participants gave immediately after reading each target sentence. Experiment 3 addressed the interaction of protagonist shifts and spatial shifts, showing that it may be due to the differential involvement of unexplained protagonist motions. These experimental results support the processing load predictions of the event-indexing model and extend previous correlational results.
我们对兹万、兰斯顿和格雷泽（1995年）提出的事件索引模型进行了测试。参与者阅读包含涉及情境转换的目标句子的叙述。主角、时间和地点维度的连续性和转换相互独立地变化。在实验1中，目标句子的阅读时间因主角转换和时间转换而增加，而空间转换的影响较弱。此外，还发现了主角转换和空间转换的交互作用。这些结果在实验2中得到了重复，实验2还揭示了这些情境转换对参与者在读完每个目标句子后立即给出的连贯性评分有强烈影响。实验3探讨了主角转换和空间转换的交互作用，表明这可能是由于未解释的主角动作的不同参与程度所致。这些实验结果支持了事件索引模型的处理负荷预测，并扩展了先前的相关结果。
